GERMANY. Risks and Opportunities Related to Media and Journalism Studies (2000–2020). Case Study on the National Research and Monitoring Capabilities.
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2022
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As the largest country and media market in the MEDIAdelcom project, Germany features both a
rich and highly differentiated research environment and an added level of complexity due to the
decentralized organization of the federal state. Regional differences between federal states are
especially relevant with regards to the journalism domain and the domain of legal and ethical
regulation. In addition to scholarly research and literature, a system of commercial research
into media usage supplements continuous availability of data on market developments. A multitude
of monitoring and research institutions is active in the field, and several journals both for
communication studies in general and more specific subject matters exist. Compared to the
monitoring capabilities of the media sector, statistical data on the research environment is
comparably hard to come by: There is no centralized database of researchers and their output
as found in some other countries, and even statistics on funding rarely differentiate communication
studies from neighboring fields.